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For reasons that we'll be examining in this seminar, the figure of Tarzan has made a tremendous impact on popular culture and its consumers. Influenced by the adventure fiction genre practised by Victorian writers like Rudyard Kipling, Rider Haggard and G. A. Henty, e.g., Tarzan introduces the new narrative dimension of human beings interacting with apes. In locating his story in 'darkest' Africa, Edgar Rice Burroughs moreover avails of contemporary stereotypes about imperialism's 'civilizing mission'. Why then is it, that the figure of Tarzan continues to universally fascinate, especially spectators, right up to the present moment?
Main Texts:
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes. 1914. Project Gutenberg.org.
Tarzan. DVD. Walt Disney, 1999. |
